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NCAR & UCAR at AMS 2014

Extreme Weather, Climate, and the Built Environment: New Perspectives Opportunities, and Tools

We're looking forward to seeing many colleagues and friends at the 2014 meeting of the American Meteorological Society, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, February 1–6, 2014. In addition to all the talks and poster sessions by NCAR and UCAR Community Programs people, here are some ways to connect with us:

Workshops, Town Halls, Featured Sessions Teacher Workshop on Weather & the Built Environment The Federal Policy Landscape Presidential Town Hall: Adapting to the New Normal Requestable Observing Facilities The Sun-Earth Connection Science with a Vengeance: Who Were the First U.S. Space Scientists?

WeatherFest

A free, interactive science and weather fair for children and youth of all ages. Come discover more than 65 cool and interactive science exhibits with experiments, educational information, career guides, and much more from scientists and teachers from all over the nation. UCAR is sponsoring WeatherFest Passports, diffraction glasses for all visitors, event photography, and the 2014 WeatherFest promotional video. Be sure to stop by and say hello!

Workshops, Town Halls, Special Sessions

Teacher Workshop on Weather and the Built Environment

For 4th–9th grade educators from the Atlanta metro area and interested educators from other states attending the conference. Join UCAR's Teri Eastburn and Bob Henson for a session on hurricane storm surges, climate connections, and more. Registration required.

Adapting to the New Normal—Building, Sustaining, and Improving our Weather and Climate Hazard Resilience (Presidential Town Hall)

The evening will feature two preeminent speakers: FEMA Administrator W. Craig Fugate and Professor Donald Wuebbles. Professor Wuebbles will first present the principal findings of the recent major international IPCC assessment report, of which he is a coordinating lead author. Special guest speaker Craig Fugate will then provide practical perspectives on disaster risk management and preparedness now and into the future. Attendees will also have a chance to see the ultra-fine resolution simulation of the evolution of Hurricane Sandy as it approached and made landfall, with catastrophic impacts over the northeastern United States created by a team of researchers from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and Cray Inc.

This Town Hall Meeting will introduce you to the suite of observational research platforms and services available through the five Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities partner organizations and provide a clear roadmap on how to request these facilities in support of scientific field campaigns and educational activities.

On hand will be facility managers, experienced users of LAOF, and NSF representatives to provide information and advice on how to incorporate available instruments and platforms into an experiment design, what steps need to be taken to request one or more of these facilities, and how to maximize the success of a campaign. (NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory)

The Sun-Earth Connection: Ignore it at your peril! (Session)

A single strong solar flare could bring civilization to its knees. Modern society has come to depend on technologies sensitive to solar radiation and geomagnetic storms. Particularly vulnerable are intercontinental power grids, satellite operations and communications, and GPS navigation. Both short- and long-term forecasting models are urgently needed to mitigate the effects of solar storms and to anticipate their collective impact on aviation, astronaut safety terrestrial climate and others. Co-hosted by the UCAR Visiting Scientist Programs and NASA Living With a Star Program.

Who were the first space scientists in the United States? Names like James Van Allen, Herb Friedman, Richard Tousey, Homer Newell and William Rense are those we think of when we think back to the first scientists who designed and built devices to sense the nature of the Earth's high atmosphere and explore the nature of solar radiation beyond the atmospheric cutoff. They used vehicles like captured German V-2 missiles, the Navy's Viking and then Aerobee sounding rockets to make these observations. Here we look back at who these people were, why they chose such difficult challenges, and why none of them were established physicists or astronomers who had disciplinary training that stimulated the questions they wanted to answer with these instruments.

UCAR Community Programs - Booths 225, 227 & 228

Chat with COMET/MetEd staff about the latest professional training and development offerings

Stop by any time to meet data mavens, science program managers, educators, and other experts from the Joint Office for Science Support, Visiting Scientist Programs, Spark, and the other UCAR Community Programs for the latest news and informal Q&A